Aircraft landing



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NEW YORK, ASSIGNOB TO WALSH-BUGBEE OO., NEW JERSEY, .A CORPORATION F NEW JERSEY AIRUBAI'I LANDING Application led J'llly B6, 1989. Serial lo. 881,285. l

This invention relates to floating landings or marine railway for seaplanes, flying boats and amphibians.

The invention has for an ob'ect the provision of means whereby craft o the character indicated may be docked or landed for\discharging and receiving passengers, or mail, repairs, or other activities associated with the operation and maintenance of such craft.

It is a further object of this invention to provide novel means whereby thecraft after anding in the water may be moved from the water to the landing or float, the momentum of the craft aiding in its initial elevation as it approaches the landing; novel'means being also provided whereby through manual or other power applying means the craft may be the pile having the jacket, and the ring being shown in deta11.

In these drawings 10 denotes one of a plurality of piles employed in constructin a dolphin, the upper ends of which are lasigied together in any appropriate way a suitable distance above the low water line where the apparatus is stationed. 11 denotes a central plle which projects above the ends of the piles 10, and the said pile is provided with a metal jacket 12 on which a turning rin 13 is rotatable. The said ring may pre erably be provided with anti-friction members, such as rollers or balls, althou h'the inventor does not wish to be limited with respect to this feature. The turning ring has a chain bridle 14 connected to it and the bridle in turn isconmechanically drawn to and delivered on the nected to the float landing an removed therefrom when the 2o purpose of its landing has been accomplished.

Itis a still further object of this invention to provide a landing of the character indicated which can be moored or anchored in a manner which will rmit its movement un- 25 der influences of ti es or winds.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more 30 fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this application, wherein like characters denote corresponding parts u in the several views, and in which- Figure I illustrates a view in elevation of a docking apparatus embodying the inven-A tion; y

Figure 2 illustrates an enlarged view of fragment-s of the device;

Figure 3 illustrates a sectional view on the line 3--3 of Fig. 2;

Figure 4 illustrates a planview of a frag- 5 ment of the landing device;

Figure 5 illustrates a detail view of a manually operated means for moving the conve er;

Figure 6 illustrates a sectional view o details of the conveyer; and te Figure 7 illustrates a, detail view showing 15. The float may have a platform 16 and preferably supplied with air drums, conventionall shown at 17. A number' of buoyant mem rs such as air drums will be supplied, according to the capacity of the iioat, as those skilled in the artwill understand.

Owing to the fact that the float is anchored in the manner stated, it will be permitted to swing with the tide or Wind and it will therefore always be in position for the reception of aircraft which land and taxi against the tide or wind, whichever is prevalent.

A conveyer which is oscillatably anchored to the float comprises, in the present embodiment of the structure, suitable bearing brackets 18 which are attached to the float and pro- -ect therefrom, and the said brackets have hearings for a shaft 19. Conveyer sprocket wheels 20 are secured on the shaft by a suitable key 21, and link belt chains 22 operate in connection with the said sprocket wheels.

The shaft 19 is operated through the employment of sprocket wheels 23 on the said shaft andy sprocket chains 24 which engage sprocket wheels 25 on the shafts 26, which Ishafts 26 are rotatable iii-bearings 27 located on the float. `A ratchet wheel 28 on each of the shafts 26 is moved under the iniluence of a ratchet 29 carried by the manually operated handle or lever 30 which is pivoted on the shaft 26 so that by the operation of the lever r handleBO lthe shaft 19 may be rotated to loc' connected to other forms of motive power,

such as a reversible electric motor or the like. Y Two mechanisms of the' general character of that shown in Figure 5 are associated with the conveyer, one of which is preferably 1ocated at each side of the fioat and the ratchet wheel of one of these conveyer moving mechanisms has a pitch opposite to that of thepitch of the other ratchet wheel in order that the manipulation of the lever or handle on one side will result in moving the conveyer in one direction, while the operation of the lever or handle on the other side will result in moving the conveyer in the opposite direction, so that by these mechanisms the aircraft may be moved on to or removed from the landing or float.

The outer end of the conveyer is provided with a shaft 3l which is journaled in the sides Y 32 of the pivoted landing. The shaft 3l has sprocket wheels,such as 33 thereon which are engaged by the link belts;

The conveying mechanism is buoyant and maybe supplied with standard air drums, generally identified by the numeral 34, so arranged that the conveyer is supported in an inclined position with its outer end a suitable distance below the surface of the\water in order that the bottom of an air craft will clear the lower end to a degree which will permit it to run u'p the incline a suitable distance under its momentum to be thereafter raised to the surface of the oat through the operation of the conveyer.

I claim:

1. In an aircraft landing, a float, an anchoring device therefor, a member rotatable on the anchoring device, a connection between the rotatable member and the float, a conveyer extending outwardly and downwardly from the ioat and terminating at its outer end lunder the surface of the water bearing the float, and manually operated means for* moving the conveyer or propelling an aircraft to or from the said float.

2. In an aircraft landing, a float, an anchoring device therefor, a member rotatable on the anchoring device, a connection between the rotatable member and the fioat, a conveyer extending outwardly and downwardly from the float and terminating at its outer end under the surface of the water bearlng the oat,.means on the float for propelling the conveyer in one direction and means on the oat for propelling the conveyer in an opposite direction.

3. In an aircraft landing, a fioat, a dolphin having a central pile, a metal jacket on said pile, a ring rotatably applied to the pile, a connection from the ring to the float, an inclined conveyer extending from the fioat, means for supporting the conveyer in an inclined position, and means for operating the conveyer for moving a craft from the water to the float or from the float to the water.

ROBERT ROYAL RONE. 

